If you're looking to protect your future fertility or restore your fertility when it is lost, we can help. Since 2010, the UPMC Fertility Preservation Program, part of UPMC Magee Center for Reproduction and Transplantation (CRT), has provided world-class care.
Contact Us
You or your doctor can request an appointment by calling the office or emailing CRT@UPMC.edu.
Our Services
Our fertility preservation services
Our program provides a wide range of fertility services.
Patients can freeze sperm, eggs, or embryos to preserve their fertility.
We can freeze testicular or ovarian tissue that can be thawed in the future and used to produce sperm or eggs and restore fertility.
The program also leads a number of fertility preservation and fertility restoration clinical trials.
To provide these standard and experimental fertility services, we work with:
For people with ovaries: options to preserve fertility
- IVF/embryo freezing in coordination with the Center for Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology (CFRE).
- Egg freezing in coordination with CFRE.
- Ovarian tissue freezing (experimental, Center for Reproduction and Transplantation).
- GnRH agonist in coordination with CFRE.
- Gonadopexy in coordination with CFRE.
For people with testes: options to preserve fertility
- Sperm freezing CRT.
- Testicular sperm extraction (TESE) in coordination with the Men’s Health Center.
- Testicular sperm aspiration (TESA) in coordination with the Men’s Health Center.
- Epididymal sperm aspiration in coordination with the Men’s Health Center.
- Testicular tissue freezing (experimental, CRT).
Our fertility restoration services
Options to restore fertility from frozen eggs, embryos, or ovarian tissues
- In vitro fertilization (IVF) followed by embryo transfer in coordination with CFRE.
- Frozen embryo transfer in coordination with CFRE.
- Ovarian tissue transplantation (experimental, CRT).
Options to restore fertility from frozen sperm or testicular tissues
- IVF or IVF with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) followed by embryo transfer in coordination with CFRE.
- Spermatogonial stem cell transplantation (experimental, CRT).
- Testicular tissue grafting (experimental, CRT).
About Our Fertility Research and Program
Our innovative research focuses on how the following can impact fertility:
- Diseases.
- Genetics.
- Aging.
- Treatments for cancer and other conditions.
We then quickly apply our knowledge and insights to the care and treatment of our patients.
The UPMC Fertility Preservation Program also:
- Educates patients and their doctors about the reproductive consequences of their diseases, treatments or other circumstances.
- Develops state-of-the-art reproductive technologies to preserve fertility and treat infertility.
- Translates those new reproductive technologies into clinical practice.
- Trains the next era of fertility preservation doctors and researchers in this quickly evolving field.
